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...impossible for all but the lame or diseased to drop out of Harvard without being drafted. The "year-off"--for the student who is fired as well as the voluntary leaver--is dead and will remain so until the Selective Service Act is revised or the Vietnam war ends...
...regions of Nigeria in comprehensive regional development programs with various ministries of the government. Northern--emphasis will be on livestock management, marketing cooperatives, small business development and community development. Eastern--rural development construction, Young Farmers clubs, surveying and cash crop organizing. Mid-West--development of Young Farmers clubs, schools leaver's farms, forestry, poultry and instruction in construction and rural sociology. Western--ag instruction. Young Farmers clubs, agricultural extension and urban youth club programs...
...attitude of the leaver's fellow students is often as enthusiastic as that of the Administration. A student leaving often symbolizes the unfulfilled wishes of others, and is often regarded as a hero by the discontent minority. While in the process of leaving, he will hear from other students: "I would like to leave myself, I just don't have the guts." There is, however, a large group who do not ever wish to drop out of Harvard and cannot see why anyone else would want to make such a choice...
...left out the stuff that Bill or Joe ... will come along and say presently." Snarled Wolfe: "Just remember that although Madame Bovary in your opinion may be a great book, Tristam Shandy is indubitably a great book because it boils and pours ... A great writer is not only a leaver-outer but also a putter-inner, and Shakespeare and Cervantes and Dostoievsky were great putter-inners and will be remembered for what they put in ... as long as Monsieur Flaubert will be remembered for what he left...
Said bewildered Sculptor Vittor: "Napoleon's Josephine posed for Canova without a bathing suit. After all Miss Leaver didn't pose in the nude and there's nothing to offend her. . . . My brother Anthony and I had every measurement. We had photographs of her. We had a chart...